Two sets of sisters bailed for ‘savage’ pub attack

Two sets of sisters have been handed jail sentences for a “savage” attack on another woman outside a pub.

Three were given six- month sentences at Clonakilty District Court for their part in the incident just over a year ago, in which Judge James McNulty said they had laid into another woman on the street in Kinsale, Co Cork.

At their trial a week earlier, he convicted Denise McCarthy, aged 32, a mother of two from Cluain an Óir, Belgooly, and her sister Sarah McCarthy, aged 28, a mother of one from Rosehill, Kinsale. They had been accused of assault causing harm to Paula Canty in the early hours of Jun 4, 2012.